Chonburi Immigration Police capture Belgian fugitive

Chonburi Immigration Police have arrested a Belgian fugitive wanted for allegedly murdering his wife and dumping her body in a lake before fleeing to Pattaya.

Tcheou Joel Tcharada, 57, was captured Feb. 27 staying with a woman in the northern Thai city of Mukdahan where he’d gone after Pattaya. Police said he was preparing to flee into Laos over the border crossing there.